September 25, 1950 – September 4, 2023 From Syd Lewis (Transom Editor) Losing Mary Hearing of sound engineer Mary Gaffney’s death staggered me. I’d spoken with

Floating… Floating is an excerpt from my staged work CHRCH, A BLACK MUSIC STORY.  CHRCH is a work of autofiction that follows my own lived

One of the ways I discover new podcasts is by reading “best of” lists. While there can be a lot of dreck in those lists,

Sharif Youssef’s “Pineapple Head” is a poetic little piece, written like a children’s book, but exploring themes of depression and loneliness. The post Pineapple Head

Introduction  Welcome back to Starting Out from me and Transom! In this issue I spoke with NPR’s scientist in residence and Short Wave co-host Regina

Would you mind turning on the light switch? When I moved to the U.S., I lived for a while in Borough Park, a neighborhood in

During nearly every workshop I teach, right at the beginning, I send students out to the street to record vox. Talking to strangers with recording

Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. I’m really excited about this month’s edition. It’s filled with so many opportunities

Parachuting In the early aughts I was getting my feet wet professionally as a radio reporter in Chicago and increasingly was interested in parts of

Welcome to my circus This piece embodies a personal journey of resilience. As a young, book-hungry reader in a family without means for books and

Today, Sound School marks the 15th anniversary of the death of Studs Terkel — America’s interviewer. Who didn’t Studs interview?! He chronicled the life of 20th century America from

The Plan There was none. I was winging it.  Beginnings So where did I start?  Maybe it was with the pugs. Their snuffles and grunts

Introduction   Welcome back to Starting Out from me and Transom!  I’ve got a fun issue for y’all this month, but first, I have one question

I was recently interviewed about audio storytelling by a couple of producers from ACB Stories in Germany. They asked all kinds of great questions, like

Hello! I’m Talia. Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. There are some great opportunities this month, including Arts Emergency’s mentorship

One day, a bunch of years ago, I was sitting in the kitchen of a women who lived in Phippsburg, Maine, over by Small Point

Hi y’all!  Lately I’ve been trying to make a habit of reaching out to people when I love their work. Not because I want a

Some ideas are just so maddeningly simple. You think “Why didn’t I come up with that?!!” I felt like that when I first heard Rachel

Hello! I’m Talia. Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. If you’re new here, in this column, you’ll find international audio

Anytime I’ve spoken to friends and colleagues in the radio and podcast world this year, the conversation inevitably turns to all the layoffs and closures.

Introduction   As you’re reading this, I’m on a plane to the Online News Association’s conference in Philadelphia. It’s my first ever fancy professional conference and

A Time Capsule of Stories and Soundscapes Forty-five years ago, I began recording things that few others were paying attention to, like the sounds of

You know how you go through your interview tape and you discover a lot of great moments, quotes and ideas that stand out and you

Hello! I’m Talia. Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. If you’re new here, All Hear is both a Transom post

(This is a rebroadcast of an episode of The Sound School Podcast from 2020, back when it was called HowSound. These notes about the episode

Introduction   Hey y’all! We’ve got a bunch of new subscribers, so I thought I’d do a little housekeeping!  I’m Alice, a podcast producer in Durham,

Music is emotional fascism. I often say that when I’m teaching. It’s a warning about scoring stories with music because music is incredibly dangerous —

Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. If you’re new here, my name is Talia, I’m an audio producer based

Sometimes I yell at podcasts. I’ve grown weary of narrative series that use the same tropes again and again. Haven’t you? Surely, you’ve heard this

Introduction I try not to think too much about the day that I got laid off. It was during the early days of COVID. After

When I think back on it, I had a positively appalling approach to field recording when I first started out as a producer. A problem

The first cohort of the CBC’s Indigenous Pathways programme. Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. If you’re new here, my

“Driveway moment.” That’s a term used for a captivating audio story. The story is so good, so well told, a listener can’t get out of

We were digging into some numbers the other day. By “we,” I mean, Jay Allison and Jennifer Jerrett at Transom and Kerri Hoffman at PRX.

Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. If you’re new here, my name is Talia, I’m an audio producer based in

Remember back in high school, when a student would raise their hand and ask the teacher “How long does the report need to be?” I